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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Copperwood
Session Chair:
Angela Chambers
Alternate Chair:
Marsha Henley
Session Organizer:
Douglas G. Bowen
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Preliminary Chlorine Worth Study Benchmark Evaluation
1:00–1:20PM MST
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Travis Grove (LANL)
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ORNL Neutron Cross Section Measurements of 90Zr
1:20–1:40PM MST
Klaus Guber (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Carlos Paradela (EC-JRC Geel), Stefan Kopecky (EC-JRC Geel), Jan Heyse (EC-JRC Geel), Peter Schillebeeckx (EC-JRC Geel)
Four New Plutonium Thermal Epithermal eXperiments (TEX) Critical Configurations Optimized to Test Thermal Scattering Laws
1:40–2:00PM MST
C.M. Percher (LLNL), M.A. Lee (C.S. Engineering), R.G. Sanchez (LANL), T.J. Grove (LANL), J.M. Goda (LANL)
Presented by Jesse Norris (LLNL)
TEX-HEU: Baseline Assemblies Benchmark and Results, HEU-MET-MIXED-021
2:00–2:20PM MST
Jesse Norris (LLNL), David Heinrichs (LLNL), Catherine Percher (LLNL)
Design of Critical Experiments Targeting Epithermal Cross Sections of Tantalum
2:20–2:40PM MST
David E. Ames (Sandia), Gary A. Harms (Sandia), Elijah Lutz (Sandia)
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